Manchester High

Manchester High operates as a big senior high in Midlothian, Virginia, overseen by Chesterfield County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 2,236 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Manchester High sits 84% above that benchmark.

Chesterfield County Public Schools runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 64,194 students. Manchester High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Manchester High reports that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 26% Black, 21% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 165 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 74% of students at Manchester High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Chesterfield County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Manchester High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 68.1%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Across the wider county, Chesterfield County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,931 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Chesterfield County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,194 students), Manchester High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bailey Bridge Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Manchester High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 78.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Manchester High's enrollment has expanded 12% since 2018, when it stood at 2,001 (now 2,236). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 57% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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